Great give-away: French-inspired gourmet meals for baby!

I like this little book by Jenny Carenco, a Swedish mom now living in France. Fun recipes with gourmet ingredients (‘celery and apple puree’, for example). The photos are adorable too!

The recipes are likely to seem slightly exotic for many North American palates, but the philosophy is one I think more parents should adopt: introduce your child to as many tastes and textures when they’re still young, to ‘train’ their tastebuds. They’ll thank you for it later on! That’s the key insight of the French (and Italian, and Korean, and Indian….) approach to food education. And it’s the focus of my new book, Getting to Yum (out early next year)!

I’m delighted to be doing a give-away of Jenny’s book this week. To enter, simply:
–like my page on Facebook and
-leave a comment below.

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I have an almost 8 month old and am a firm believer in the French attitude towards food. However, my little girl hardly likes anything! I’d love to introduce lots of new flavours to her, but I can hardly get them in her mouth. Any advice?

I just finished your book and LOVED it! I got the book from the library, but I think I will have to buy it because when I was finished, I had dog-eared about 50 pages! I have a six month old who just started on solids, I’m so excited to try your ideas and recipes and would love to have this other recipe book to try out as well!

This is not an entry, because I already have the book. I made my entire family’s menu from it for last week. Love it! And so glad to be raising my youngest with these principles. At 10 months she devours: turnips, leeks, greens, fish, smoked salmon, spinach, asparagus, and any other vegetable we give her. 🙂

I would love to win a copy of the book. I have read your book several times ans as a Early Years Educator, I highly recommend your book to parents. I have quoted from it many times when speaking to parents about children’s health and nutrition. I would love to read the book you are giving away and hopefully be able to help parents see the a new light of children’s education and nutrition.

Love your book! I grew up in a similar household to what you desribe in your books, likely because of my western european parents. I hope to provide the same to my children. Look forward to your new book as well!

Your book changed my life! My family is astounded by how well my girls eat now. I would love to add this book to my recipe book collection for more fun creative ways to introduce new foods to my babies! Thanks for your work, Karen!

Anything that helps get the little ones tasting more foods is a good thing. I have always made the baby food for our children but they all seem to hit an age where they refuse to eat things they have already tried. Maybe a little ‘peer pressure’ from the littlest one trying some new combinations might get the older ones to try them, too?

I’m halfway through your book. You are truly an inspiration. My 8-month-old said his third word (after Mama and Dada) yesterday: FISH! He said it while eating homemade and pureed calamari, pastina, and ragu with spinach, and repeated it again this morning while telling Grandma what we ate for dinner last night. I’m so excited to find new recipes to share with him!

I just finished re-reading your book and have started serving little purees before dinner – my sons love the spinach soup. Thank you so much for writing that book. It’s amazing. And as a matter of coincidence, I checked out Bebe Gourmet from our library a few weeks ago and have been making a few of those recipes, too. Such yummy food happening in our kitchen these days!

I love that you are able to give away amazing books and this one looks like it is no exception! I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy to share with friends, family and the community I teach in. As far as I can tell from reading about this book online, many of the recipes seem quite similar to ones we were introduced to in my french primary school, but which seemed like they would be lost to time.